A Russian polar research vessel docked in South Africa's Cape Town harbour at the weekend as climate protesters raised fears it could be used to help Moscow explore for minerals in protected Antarctica.. The ship is owned by the Polar Marine Geosurvey Expedition, a subsidiary of the Russian state-owned mineral exploration company RosGeo.
The idea of New York in wintertime conjures up images of Manhattan's Times Square and Central Park shrouded in snow.. Meteorologists define snowfall in NYC as snow that measures at least 0.1 inches in Central Park.
Snow may have been falling on Montreal's Old Port, with temperatures in the bone-chilling category, but that didn't stop the exuberant dancers during the city's first Igloofest after a Covid pause.. So what, they seemed to say, if temperatures were on the wrong side of zero.
Authorities in Chile on Saturday raised the alert level and limited access to the area around the Lascar volcano, after an increase in seismic activity raised fears of a possible eruption.. Following "an increase in seismicity," the National Geology and Mining Service has raised the alert level for Lascar from yellow to orange.
The "love hormone" oxytocin has long been thought key to behaviours including pairing up with a partner and nurturing offspring, but a new study in prairie voles is raising doubts.. Prairie voles are one of the few mammals that mate for life, and are often used to study social behaviours like pair-forming in animals.
French prosecutors said on Friday they would investigate the appearance of vast quantities of tiny toxic plastic pellets along the Atlantic coast that endanger marine life and the human food chain.. Fish and birds often mistake them for food and, once ingested, the tiny granules can make their way into the diet of humans.
Territories in Brazil's fragmented Atlantic Forest where Indigenous peoples enjoy secure land rights have seen measurably less deforestation than similar areas in which land tenure is weak or non-existent, researchers reported Thursday.. "Indigenous lands with tenure showed a reduction in deforestation and increase in reforestation compared to lands that didn't have secure legal rights," said Benzeev, writing from Brazil's Atlantic Forest, where she is sharing her findings with Indigenous leaders.
More than one third of the Amazon rainforest may have been degraded by human activity and drought, researchers said Thursday, and action is needed to protect the critically important ecosystem.. In a separate study published in Science of the human impacts on the Amazon, researchers from the University of Louisiana Lafayette and elsewhere called for action.
Conservationists have deployed a new vessel in the fight to save the world's rarest marine mammal from extinction due to illegal fishing in Mexico's Gulf of California.. A joint effort by the marine wildlife group, the Mexican navy and other partners known as "Operation Miracle" has reduced illegal fishing activity that threatens the vaquita by more than 70 percent in the past year, it said.
South Africa said Thursday that it had reached a deal to transfer more than 100 cheetahs to India as part of an ambitious project to reintroduce the spotted cats in the south Asian country.. Negotiations for the deal with South Africa were long in the making, with the first cheetahs initially expected to be flown to India last August.
